noun (plural same or buffaloes)

● Four species native to South Asia (genus Bubalus, family Bovidae). See also water buffalo, anoa ● A wild ox with large horns, native to Africa south of the Sahara (Synceros caffer, family Bovidae, the African buffalo), sometimes considered to be two species, the Cape buffalo and the forest (or dwarf) buffalo.

verb (buffaloes, buffaloing, buffaloed)

The Australian government has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty but still seems to have been buffaloed by the totally unsubstantiated claim that carbon dioxide is harmful.

‘How are we going to get in? ‘the Duke asked, determined not to be buffaloed by a camel.’

But it does seem to be a guy who will come out the way he would like in every case - and is not going to be buffaloed by Professor Tribe's hand-picked law clerks any more than he is buffaloed by Professor Tribe.